I'm watching the India -New Zealand One Day series pretty regularly these days, and while the action has been thoroughly entertaining, there's something that was not quite right, and it took me a while to figure it out. Stadium hosts and organizers these days ahve obviously realied that crwods need to be entertained and kept interesteed between the numerous stops and starts that form the part of any game. And playing loud loud music between boundaries and at Wickets and so on has become quite common place. What surpised me is that for a team that is only visiting New Zealand, and although there are quite a few Indians there, the only music playing was HIndi stuff, Rang De Basanti, Delhi-6. Jab We Met to name a few..This seemed really weird to me, and I wondered why they would bother doing so.. Now as part of the channel that shows the games, there are pauses when there is just no commentary and you can hear people in the crowd speaking as they pick up sounds from various cameras. As the speaker system loudly croone Mauja Hi Mauja, a presumably New Zealander guy said, " What fucking shite is this mate, put on some U2 for gods sake.." this just totally cracked me up for a while, and thats when I realized, the poor old guy does have a point. Who are we to go to another country, play them at their ground, take over their audio systems and play music that people there are not going to understand ?
Now this really got me thinking as to how people go to another country and try and either impose themselves and their country and culture , or adopt the culture of the people of the country on goes to. For one, with students like me encountering rules like, " you can only work in a job relaed to you field of study that requires a degree that you have completed only for getting a job and a visa ", and to companies putting up on their sites " We only employ U.S. Citizens, Permanent residents, Asylum seekers, and refugees, but we do not sponsor HI-B visas " !!! , one begins to wonder wether we really are welcome in the country anymore ? I think the problem is that , we all have become so so so in tune to the usual path that everyone follows of doing a Master's/Phd, getting a job, get an HI-B visa, a Green card, and the becoming a Citizen, and vote for Obama yeah..!!!
Why are we then sooooo hell bent on staying in this country, and doing whatever it takes to stay here ? Do we not owe it to ourselves to say, enough of this, I could have a much easier time back home with Family and work in a good job, and be Happy in life ? Is staying in the U.S. still all that important when we could go back home and maybe lead as good a life ? What I don't like is how we all seem to be " Angry " , " Hurt " and disappointed that we seem to be driven out of this country. General opinion seems to be, " Why do those idiots not want to hire International Student ? Morons, they come to a career fair and tell us this ? ". I was thinking aboiut this the other day and i figured, why do they really have to be coming and hiring us ? Has it become a part of their duty to hire international students and say, come students, we will welcome you with open arms ?What I realy mean to say is, we have become so wrapped in the image that we have in our minds, and that have also been created for us, that we can't even beign fathom to think of anything else as a viable option ?
With that I would like to end, and since most of the people who actually read his blog, i.e. the 5 of you, and have been in a similar situation, I would love to heat what you guys think.
